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Home > "Dark Moon", Editing, Novels, Projects, The Writing Process > Finally There – Under the Darkened Moon Manuscript Phase

Finally There – Under the Darkened Moon Manuscript Phase

October 20, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment Go to comments

With FINAL edits done, I am now on to the manuscript compilation phase for Under the Darkened Moon.  Ok, so “FINAL” edit is probably a misnomer because compiling the manuscript does entail some minor editing.  I’m still looking for errors, but mostly it will consist mostly of formatting.

However, I do read each chapter one, final time.  In the process, I am looking for:

  1. Any remaining sentence structure issues.
  2. Any places where dialogue might need some clarifation as to who is speaking and adding “so-and-so said” (or equivalent) as needed.
  3. Needless “had”s, “that”s, and “look”s that were missed in final editing
  4. Running the text through a Text To Speech engine to listen and see if there are any missing words or awkward sounding items.

Finished chapter 1 last night and things went swimmingly.  One sentence corrected.  No dialogue problems.  No superfelous hads, looks, or thats.  And the TTS software read sounded great to me.

Onward and upward!

Categories: "Dark Moon", Editing, Novels, Projects, The Writing Process Tags: Compilation, Darkened Moon, Dialogue, Formatting, Manuscript, Misnomer, Missing Words, Moon Phase, Running, Sentence Structure, Speech Engine, Structure Issues, Swimmingly, Text To Speech, Tts Software
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